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Platform longevity helped define Ryzen's rise, but was it really the secret sauce? As Nova Lake and Zen 6 approach, we revisit AM4 to see how much socket support truly shaped the CPU market.
Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others are expected to participate
The big picture: With electricity bills rising due to surging demand from AI data centers, President Trump has called for technology companies to either build their own power plants or help finance new power generation facilities. The directive comes amid growing protests from rural communities over energy-intensive AI data centers that have been rapidly expanding across the country.
PDFs are structurally hostile to large language models
Looking ahead: Three decades after Adobe introduced the Portable Document Format – a design intended to preserve the appearance of printed pages across devices – PDFs are facing pressure from a completely different kind of reader: artificial intelligence. The same fixed layouts that made PDFs indispensable to human users now make them difficult for large language models to interpret. Unlike web pages or plain-text files, columns, embedded graphics, and hidden metadata in PDFs often confuse machine parsing systems trained to process linear text.
What just happened? Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in Washington this week in an effort to break an impasse over military use of AI models developed by Anthropic. The Pentagon is seeking broad operational access to the company's Claude model for classified applications, but Anthropic has resisted approving certain use cases.
Winners & losers: In a world where military planners are increasingly turning to AI for strategy modeling, a recent experiment from King's College London offers a serious warning: when left to their own devices, AI systems tend to go nuclear. Dr. Kenneth Payne, a defense studies scholar at the university, tested three of the most advanced LLMs: GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Google Gemini 3 Flash, by placing them in a series of simulated global crises. The results revealed alarming patterns of aggression and miscalculation that challenge assumptions about AI's potential role in warfare management.